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Yesterday Google ended the Glass Explorer program. From the start, people loved to hate Google Glass, and never seemed to warm to the notion of nerds with computers on their faces. But the device could still have a future in business. http://tcrn.ch/1G8vY4K

My first TechCrunch article is up. When it comes to new tech, we tend to go to the worst place possible, then over time we accept the new tech as it mainstreams --and we forget the initial concerns. Call it Ron's Adoption Theory.

I got this assignment when I met TechCrunch editor Alexia Tsotsis at South by Southwest last week. I later pitched her via Twitter on this idea, and finalized the deal when I ran into her at the airport on my way out of town. She printed my article almost word for word from the initial draft. http://tcrn.ch/1nxW5bZ

In an effort to differentiate itself from the rest of the pack, Hyundai went a step beyond the companies announcing smartphone integration at CES in Las Vegas this week. Instead, it announced direct integration with Google Glass with its higher end Genesis automobile. That might be a limited market at least for now, but it puts Hyundai on the cutting edge of mobile technologies. http://bit.ly/1bROQQf

On Saturday I traveled to New York City to the Google Glass office to pick up my very own Google Glass. Here's my story of what happened, and if you want to know, Google made it a very special experience.

On Saturday, I traveled to New York City with my chief photographer, my wife Tomma Henckel, and was fitted with my very own Google Glass. This slideshow on Internet Evolution documents the experience. It was a fun day, let's put it that way and Google made it feel like a special adventure.